Watching her 11-year-old daughter Molly playing in the park with her support dog Chess, Emma knew that it was the start of something special. Seeing the huge smile on Molly’s face and Chess’ tail wagging, it was as if they had always been together. ‘They had an instant connection – it was a real tear-jerking moment,’ says Emma, 49.
Molly was born in 2008 with cerebral palsy, following complications at birth, and for the first 24 hours, her parents Emma and Kevin didn’t know whether she would survive. Doctors tried desperately to bring her seizures under control and, after five
